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DVD Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (Special Edition)
The winning comic finesse of Reese Witherspoon drives Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde. It's astonishing that the sequel could possibly be daffier than the first movie, but Legally Blonde 2 leaves reality behind like an unflattering outfit. Unemployed lawyer Elle Woods (Witherspoon) sets off to our nation's capitol to ban cosmetics testing on animals, after discovering that her beloved chihuahua's own mother is being used as a test subject. Washington, D.C., becomes a testing ground for Elle's mettle, as she grapples with callous committees, backstabbing representatives, and devious aides to get her bill considered by Congress, with some help from her sorority sisters and her hairdresser friend Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind). Witherspoon bursts with charisma and dazzles with sheer performing skill; she's the comic heir to screwball comedienne Carole Lombard--which is high praise. Also featuring Bob Newhart and Sally Field. --Bret Fetzer
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This movie was awful.
I liked the first Legally Blonde movie but this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I was embarrassed for Reese Witherspoon for being in such a bad movie. I sure she was too. This movie was so not funny.
Weak story, not too many laughs
In Legally Blonde 2, Reese Witherspoon returns as the dizzy, but highly intelligent lawyer, Elle Woods. Busy planning her forthcoming wedding, Elle decides she wants her dogs' long lost mother to attend the wedding. Unfortunately the private detective, hired to find Bruiser's mother, discovers she is in an animal testing laboratory and they won't release her. Elle decides to take up the fight against animal testing and launches herself on an unsuspecting Washington senate.
Like all too many sequels, Legally Blonde 2 does not live up to its predecessor. The story is just an extension of the original move, nobody takes Elle seriously as she's blonde, dressed in pink, looks like Barbie,etc... but she proves them all wrong etc. etc. The story line tries to push the moral issue of using animals in experiments. Unfortunately, the message is lost in all the froth that surrounds it.
This isn't the worst film you could watch, it's certainly ok for one of those nights when you don't want to have to concentrate too much and just want simple entertainment. Just don't expect to be rolling on the floor laughing and be prepared to suspend all thoughts of reality with the totally unbelievable storyline. There are a fair number of extras on the DVD for those who like to explore more but, like the film, they are somewhat lightweight and definitely forgettable.
Did It Have to Be This Bad?
Given the great success, both artistic and and financial, of Legally Blonde perhaps it was inevitable there be a sequel. What wasn't inevitable was that it be this bad.
To start with, Elle Woods' IQ has dropped about 30 points between films. Maybe 40. Her characterization consists primarily of doing and saying things so godawfully stupid we cringe. In the first movie, though Elle was portrayed as sort of super-Valley Girl, and a bit obsessional on the topics of clothes and hair care products, still there was a first-rate brain under all that curly blonde hair. Where is the smart, self-possessed, articulate Elle from the end of the first movie? I ask, because she's nowhere to be seen in Legally Blonde 2. Reese Witherspoon is a fine actress who should have known enough to flee in terror from this script.
Another problem with Legally Blond 2: the plot is built around obvious absurdities. Elle decides she needs to find her dog Bruiser's mother so she can invite Mrs. Bruiser to her upcoming wedding. Jesus wept. Let's pause for a moment to recognize that in the first movie, even though Elle loved her pet as much as many pet owners do, she never descended into blithering idiocy about it. Elle hires a private detective to locate the mother of this homeless stray she found on the street years ago....and the detective does it! No explanation of how, it's just a fait accompli. All I could think was, "You have GOT to be kidding me." In the first movie, its great attraction was that it took place basically in the real world, with a logical cause-and-effect system in place. It's just that Elle was the destabilizing factor that pushed things over the edge into comedy. In Legally Blonde 2 there's no logical cause-and-effect; things happen just because the plot requires them.
Elle, using the detective's information, tracks Mrs. Bruiser to an animal testing facility. Thereafter we're treated to a dissertation on what a horrible, horrible thing this is. Okay, the morality of animal testing is something we could debate, pro and con. There's a place for that, but it's not in a movie like this. If you want to preach, get a soapbox. We're paying our eight dollars and fifty cents on a Reese Witherspoon Legally Blonde movie to be amused and entertained, not to watch the world's longest PETA commercial.
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